From: Matthias Urlichs (urlichs@smurf.sub.org)
Date: 06/14/93


From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Subject: Re: ISDN - Linux's killer
Date: 14 Jun 1993 15:35:49 +0200

In comp.os.linux, article <1993Jun12.170603.3549@data-hh.hanse.de>,
  chk@data-hh.hanse.de (Christian Kuhtz) writes:
>
> Any ideas about that performance stuff?.. you have to
> deal with at least 8KBit/s. If you're using both B channels
> you're already close to 16KBit/s.... plus a lot of protocol
> overhead.
>
The overhead isn't that bad. Multiply by two for bidirectional traffic.
Then divide by 32 because that's how big the FIFOs on the passive Siemens
ISDN chips are. ;-)

> Or am I wrong about that? Afraid of something where there
> isn't anything to be afraid of ?
>
Should work. More after _my_ passive-card driver runs on Linux. Currently I'm
somewhat stalled because the motherboard hangs every quarter hour or so. :-(

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